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The Vitamin D Foundation
Our Action Declaration:
The Vitamin
D Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization
dedicated to saving hundreds of thousands of lives
by offering support to groups and individuals who:
1)
Recognize
that vitamin D deficiency affects 1 billion people
worldwide, including a majority of North Americans
according to the most conservative estimates.
2)
Understand
that vitamin D deficiency is well established in the
medical literature as a major contributing factor
for most forms of cancer as well as heart disease,
multiple sclerosis, osteoporosis, type I diabetes
and many other disorders. Hundreds of studies have
now established both the mechanism explaining the
association between vitamin D deficiency and
increased incidence of these diseases as well as the
extent to which vitamin D deficiency increases risk.
3)
Acknowledge
that sunlight exposure is the body's natural,
intended and most efficient source for vitamin D,
that indoor lifestyles have unnaturally deprived
most of us from attaining natural vitamin D levels
and that overzealous sun-protection and sun
avoidance causes vitamin D deficiency.
4)
Are committed to
action. Public health interventions to
increase average vitamin D blood levels to natural
levels - no less than 50 ng/ml as recognized by The
Vitamin D Council - will save thousands of lives,
promote better health and ultimately reduce health
care costs.
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